Dunagree Light

[Saorsa]

While I own the 12-24mm Nikkor for my DX camera and will likely be buying the 6.7-13mm for my CX V1 I still prefer to make my wide landscapes with a longer lens and stitch the components.

I use MS-ICE for stitching which I picked up when it was in beta testing. I think it's part of the MS photo application now.

[Stagecoach]

It's think this is far too small to appreciate?

Grahame

[MichaelClark]

Nice view .. I like it ..

[Saorsa]

It's think this is far too small to appreciate?

Grahame

Yes, it is. It was resized to post and I should have though of that. Here are a couple of crops from the original stitch. The lighthouse and the foreground rocks on the left side.

[NorthernFocus]

Nice image. Nice composition that gives good context for the location of the lighthouse. Would really like to see a larger version to better appreciate the clouds in right side of frame.

I shoot mostly with long lenses and am therefore more comfortable using this technique also. I haven't used wide lenses enough to get a mental image of what's possible with a given scene. One thing that has helped is that I've started using live view when shooting landscapes. Doesn't sound logical but it works for me. But so far I still prefer longer lens and stitching.

[Shadowman]

Very nice.

[bnnrcn]

It is nice but it looks very small,a larger version would be nicer to view on a wall

[Saorsa]

I was mainly trying to point out the possibilities of stitching versus UWA. Dunagree would look very good as a large print but, if that same view were taken with a UWA lens it would start breaking up pretty quickly. Using the Pan and Stitch method creates a really detailed image that holds together well.

It's hard to show on a computer screen but this is a panorama I took from Edinburgh Castle.



This is the uncropped stitch taken from MS-Ice. I subsequently cropped the black areas. Here is a tight crop from the stitched panorama of a tower which is about the highest point you can see. It's about 1/3 of the way from the right above the water.

Of course there are sometimes discontinuities in the stitching. This is about the worst I found in the edinburgh image.

[Wavelength]

First image is excellent ; others are fine too

[FrankMi]

Using the Pan and Stitch method creates a really detailed image that holds together well.

Beautiful images Saorsa, but at the same time frustrating. You have all of that detail available and yet it can't be displayed large enough on a monitor to see those details.

[Saorsa]

Beautiful images Saorsa, but at the same time frustrating. You have all of that detail available and yet it can't be displayed large enough on a monitor to see those details.

I find them useful when putting together slide shows with proshow. All of the detail is there and I can pan and zoom around it with narration or music. It almost makes a video out of a few still shots.

[Cantab]

I find them useful when putting together slide shows with proshow. All of the detail is there and I can pan and zoom around it with narration or music. It almost makes a video out of a few still shots.

I hadn't heard of Proshow before. Which version do you use?

[Saorsa]

I hadn't heard of Proshow before. Which version do you use?

I'm using Proshow Gold and an older version at that. Proshow Producer and latest versions of gold offer more capabilities but this is fine for my purpose.

[Manfred M]

Actually, I've done a few panos using the Nikkor f/2.8 14-24mm lens (albeit at the long end); with the lens correction functions built into ACR, the lens distortions are taken care of quite nicely and the various images aligned quite well.

As an example, this shot is 4 or 5 images take with that lens.

Mixed lighting shots

[Geoff F]

Bruce, the full Proshow software is expensive but the 'basic' version is all that most people would need and is more realistically priced.

I have produced a few slideshows and a more involved one hour long production for my local history society.

Before finally purchasing Proshow I tried several others but rejected all of them. Proshow is fairly logical to use, once you get the hang of it, and you can do some quite clever stuff with the basic version.

I have read about that panning the view around a large scene but haven't actually got around to trying it for myself yet. Apparently some professional producers create stunning work with this relatively simple technique.

[Cantab]

Saorsa and Geoff, thanks for the comments about Proshow. I'm going to download the trial version of the basic version and give it a whirl.

[Geoff F]

There are a few CinC members how use that software, Bruce, so if you get problems . . .